Supply Chain Management: Volume 22 Issue 4

Want to reduce the bullwhip? Measure it. Here’s how

Ming Jin, Nicole DeHoratius, Glen Schmidt

The popular “beer game” illustrates the bullwhip effect where a small perturbation in downstream demand can create wild swings in upstream product flows. The purpose of this paper…

Contrasting the governance of supply chains with and without geographical indications: complementarity between levels

Marta Fernández-Barcala, Manuel González-Díaz, Emmanuel Raynaud

The aim of this paper is to explain the organizational changes along supply chains when a geographical brand, i.e. a place name that has value for commercial purposes, becomes a…

Statistical and judgmental criteria for scale purification

Andreas Wieland, Christian F. Durach, Joakim Kembro, Horst Treiblmaier

“Scale purification” – the process of eliminating items from multi-item scales – is widespread in empirical research, but studies that critically examine the implications of this…

Enhancing effects of supply chain resilience: insights from trajectory and resource-based perspectives

Jao-Hong Cheng, Kuo-Liang Lu

This paper aims to examine the operating frontier, trajectory and absorptive capacity influencing proactive and reactive dimension of supply chain resilience and implementation in…

Towards a classification of supply chain relationships: a routine based perspective

Muhammad Usman Ahmed, Mehmet Murat Kristal, Mark Pagell, Thomas F. Gattiker

This paper studies buyer–supplier relationships (BSRs) by taking a routine-based approach and develops a taxonomy of BSRs. Recent advances in the BSR literature have shown that…

Reverse logistics for the end-of-life and end-of-use products in the pharmaceutical industry: a systematic literature review

Elaine Aparecida Regiani de Campos, Istefani Carisio de Paula, Regina Negri Pagani, Patricia Guarnieri

The aim of this paper is to develop a systematic literature review (SLR) aiming to identify reverse logistics (RL) concepts and practices applied to the end-of-life (EOL) and…